malaria

See also: Malaria, malária, malària, and malarią

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mala aria (“bad air”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈlæː.ɹi.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛəriə

Noun

malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)

1. A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
2. (archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.

Synonyms

• (disease): ague

Derived terms

• malarial
• antimalarial

Translations

disease

• Afrikaans: malaria
• Arabic: مَلَارِيَا‎ f (malāriyā)
• Armenian: մալարիա (hy) (malaria), դողէրոցք (hy) (dołērocʿkʿ)
• Belarusian: малярыя f (maljarýja)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chamicuro: chukchu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘧疾 (zh), 疟疾 (zh) (nüèji)

• Crimean Tatar: sıtma
• Czech: malárie (cs) f
• Danish: malaria (da)
• Dutch: malaria (nl)
• Esperanto: malario, marĉofebro
• Finnish: malaria (fi), horkka (fi)
• French: paludisme (fr) m, malaria (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Malaria (de) f
• Greek: ελονοσία (el) f (elonosía)
• Hebrew: מָלַרְיָה‎ (he) f (malárya)
• Hindi: मलेरिया (hi) (maleriyā)
• Indonesian: malaria (id)
• Japanese: マラリア (mararia)
• Kalmyk: безг (bezg)
• Khmer: ជំងឺគ្រុនចាញ់ (cumŋɨɨ krun caɲ)
• Korean: 말라리아 (ko) (mallaria)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌رزوتا‎ (lerzuta)

• Lao: ໄຂ້ຍຸງ (khaiñung), ໄຂ້ປ່າ (khai pā)
• Lithuanian: maliarija f

• Macedonian: маларија f (malárija)
• Malay: malaria
• Maltese: malarja f
• Maori: eku
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: औलो (ne) (aulo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malaria m

  Nynorsk: malaria m

• Old English: unlyft f
• Persian: مالاریا‎ (fa) (mâlâryâ)
• Polish: malaria (pl) f
• Portuguese: malária (pt) f
• Russian: маляри́я (ru) f (maljaríja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маларија f

  Roman: malarija (sh) f

• Slovene: malarija (sl) f
• Spanish: paludismo (es) m, malaria (es) f
• Swahili: malaria
• Swedish: malaria (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangiki, malarya
• Thai: ไข้มาลาเรีย (th) (kâi maa-laa-ria)
• Tibetan: འདར་ནད ('dar nad)
• Turkish: sıtma (tr)
• Ukrainian: малярія f (maljaríja)
• Urdu: ملیریا‎ (maleriyā)
• Vietnamese: bệnh sốt rét
• Welsh: malaria m

See also

• Wikipedia article on malaria

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian malaria.

Noun

malaria c (singular definite malariaen, not used in plural form)

1. (medicine) malaria

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria

Noun

malaria f (uncountable)

1. malaria

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Finnish

Noun

malaria

1. malaria

Declension

Inflection of malaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		malaria	malariat
genitive		malarian	malarioiden malarioitten
partitive		malariaa	malarioita
illative		malariaan	malarioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		malaria	malariat
accusative	nom.	malaria	malariat
	gen.	malarian
genitive		malarian	malarioiden malarioitten malariainrare
partitive		malariaa	malarioita
inessive		malariassa	malarioissa
elative		malariasta	malarioista
illative		malariaan	malarioihin
adessive		malarialla	malarioilla
ablative		malarialta	malarioilta
allative		malarialle	malarioille
essive		malariana	malarioina
translative		malariaksi	malarioiksi
instructive		—	malarioin
abessive		malariatta	malarioitta
comitative		—	malarioineen

Anagrams

• Maalari, maalari

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.la.ʁja/

• audio

  (file)

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

malaria f (plural malarias)

1. malaria

Synonyms

• paludisme

Further reading

• “malaria” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• alarmai

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Interlingua

Noun

malaria (uncountable)

1. malaria

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Italian

Etymology

From mal- +‎

Noun

malaria f (plural malarie)

1. (medicine) malaria

Derived terms

• malarico

Anagrams

• alamari

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [maˈɫa.ri.a]

Noun

malaria f (genitive malariae); first declension

1. (New Latin) malaria

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malaria	malariae
Genitive	malariae	malariārum
Dative	malariae	malariīs
Accusative	malariam	malariās
Ablative	malariā	malariīs
Vocative	malaria	malariae

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian mala aria

Noun

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

1. malaria

References

• “malaria” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian mala aria

Noun

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

1. malaria

References

• “malaria” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

From Italian malaria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈlarʲ.ja/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

malaria f

1. malaria

Declension

declension of malaria

	singular
nominative	malaria
genitive	malarii
dative	malarii
accusative	malarię
instrumental	malarią
locative	malarii
vocative	malario

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Spanish

Noun

malaria f (plural malarias)

1. malaria

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Swahili

Etymology

From English malaria.

Noun

malaria (n class, plural malaria)

1. malaria

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English malaria.

Noun

malaria

1. malaria